Traditional iconography for this popular scene from the life of the young cowherd Krishna has the gopis swim in Vrindavan's
Yamuna River, whilst he watches from high in a tree where he has taken their clothes so that they must stand naked and plead for their return. Here Krishna is more like a royal prince in the setting of an opulently gilded palace watching the gopis in a large tank of water like a modern swimming pool, their clothes nowhere in sight.